Hieskor's stones

This scroll was added to today, Soldi, day 41 of Winter, year 544.

Introduction
These are my writings regarding the stones of Hieskor. Progress, albeit slow, has been made over the last two seasons. The most important line of current investigation, is the possible connection between Etheral Activity and Hieskor's Stones.

Personally, I still do not know, or have seen any evidence for, the Sparkle Stones of Hieskor to be in any way connected to Etheral Activity.

Facts
What we know about Hieskor and his stones:

Background

  1. Hieskor is (was?) the apprentice to a Mystic called Coleron.
  2. Coleron's lab burnt to the ground in an accident, and Hieskor managed to "rescue" the stones he now has brought to Puddleby.
  3. During Hieskor's first days in Puddleby, he walked about and talked to us other Exiles. Now he is less social and more businesslike.
  4. He is currently in Puddleby selling these stones. The price varies a lot depending on which Exile tries to purchase. Somehow he knows that you already have one on your body, so you need a friend to hold your stone, wishes you to purchase additional ones...

Stone usage

  1. When you use the stone, you Sun stone a message to yourself (eg. Kirth Gersen thinks to you, "Go, go, go!!!") and then a period of exactly 2 OOC minutes.
  2. During the two OOC minutes, the user experiences strange visual and aural hallucinations. Also, in the corner of your eye you see numbers flickering.
  3. After the period of activity, you get the aural message, eg.: "Kirth Gersen sees the number 1,702 glow on his sparkle stone!". What this means is not at all understood.
  4. The last effect of the usage is that the stone crumbles to dust. Depending on factors largely unknown, it may or may not reform to a new stone. Eg. "The dust from Kirth Gersen's crumbled sparkle stone reforms into a new one!".

Stone usage
There seems to be a relation to location and scoring. Nothing really conclusive at the moment, but The Puddleby Monestary Training Room is verified by two different Exiles (Raymond Shifter and myself) to be one such location. This means that the scoring on the stone is not particular to a specific sn'ell, but rather a very exact location. More of these locations are believed to exist.

Our fellow Exile Nephilim has experimented with his stone sitting down. This did, quite logically, not generate more than 600 in the score. This verifies the hypothesis that activity is vital to receiving a big score.

My opinion is that the Stones are of one of two possible natures. Either

  1. The stones are mere phantoms, pretty phantasms, gaudy illusions, or
  2. The stones are really measuring something, and the aural and visual effects are mere byproducts.
Which of these that is the Truth, no one can tell right now. I do believe that Hieskor himself does not know the answer. In the light of the experiments conducted in The Puddleby Monestary Training Room, I do believe that the stones are not merely pretty phantasms.

Outstanding Questions

  1. Has any similar artifacts been researched earlier in the Lands?
  2. Does the stone measure anything?
  3. What does the stone measure? Life Energy? Released Life Energy? Spirit Exhalation?
Since the stone seems to react to movement (exertion) and killings, I have been led to believe that it actually measures spent, or exhaled, life energy.

Please, let me know!

I implore you, fellow Exile, if you learn something about the Sparkle Stones or Hieskor, let me know! Contact me in the Lands, or send me an enchanted mail, to Kirth Gersen. Thank you.

Thank you:

Raymond Shifter
For letting me know about the Monestary
Nephilim
For experimenting sitting still.
Taladwy ap Owen
For much information, many details about experiments trying to prove or refute the connection between Sparkle Stones and Etheral Activity.

Further learning

Vision stone: . This stone was recorded when conducting the experiment in Tenebrion's Keep.

Vision stone: . This stone was recorded inside the Monestary Training Area.